"Trump’s demand for recess appointments is a way of breaking the Senate early on.
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@wdlindsy This is like the Christian belief that the world needs to be destroyed before Jesus will come for the second time: "One of the most frightening goals of Trumpism is that the world somehow needs to be destroyed and the people suffer great pain before the “good” part comes to them in the name of a new order, in this case under Trump."
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Angela Scholderreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Wow, Sherlock!
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Angela Scholder last edited by
@AngelaScholder Yes, good commentary by Noah Berlatsky.
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@wvlith Yes, some influential branches of Christianity — especially influential in the American context — have that strange apocalyptic idea and seem to welcome the thought of everything being destroyed to usher in the return of Christ.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Frank Heijkamp last edited by
@alterelefant Your German friends are right. An elderly German friend of ours wrote us a few months ago and asked, "Are many Americans simply crazy?"
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Musta dawned on me thusly last edited by
@blackburied Yes, good points.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Nicole Parsons last edited by
@Npars01 Thank you — valuable links and good commentary, for sure.
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@MJmusicinears Indeed.
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@Runyan50 Yes, sadly.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Dean Blobaum last edited by
@dblobaum See Holly Berkley Fletcher on that very point this morning:
Why white evangelicals support Trump
A (more) distilled version of what I've written about obsessively
(hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com)
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Angela Scholderreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy The only problem is that it was so utterly clear what would be coming.
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@pdiff1 Perhaps the belief system of a certain subset of Christians who have enormous political power in the US but hardly represent the belief system of Christianity as a whole.
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@Arqtec I agree. Good statement.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Christo. London last edited by
@Christo_459 He does, doesn't he.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Teach Honest History last edited by
@Cliftographer I do think I saw that film years ago, but somehow, it's all gone from my head. Time to watch it again!
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to CharJTF :a11y: (she/her) last edited by
@CharJTF It's not easy, is it? We can't help but worry about what's coming. At the same time, some of what we worry about may never happen. But we also want to be prepared for what's coming — a balancing act for us, psychologically.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Angela Scholder last edited by
@AngelaScholder Of course.
